Hi Trygve,

The reason "Forced MIDI Channel" didn't affect Sforzando is that Sforzando can only load one sound at a time, so will respond to notes on any MIDI channel. It's not multi-channel like Kontakt, so wouldn't behave the same way that Kontakt does.

Regarding Options - Preferences - Channels, you should not be messing with those channel numbers. This won't help you, I'd leave them all on the defaults, and simply use "Forced MIDI Channel", like I described previously.

Regarding volume changes, if you hit the # button in the Notation Window, you can access the MIDI Event List, that's where these volume changes will be hiding, you can delete them there.

Is Band-in-a-Box still crashing when you try to assign Kontakt to the Soloist track?

I'm having a bit of trouble understanding how you currently have things set up, and what exactly is going wrong at the moment. If you're able to contact us directly through the Live Help (chat) feature on our website during tech support hours, I'll be happy to go go over your settings with you, and even connect to your computer via TeamViewer if needed. We'll probably get everything sorted in 20 minutes that way.

Thanks
Kent
PG Music